Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th October 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

I see the Guardian are covering themselves in glory again. Two questions for Barney - was he against SA's sports ban during apartheid and has he seen what Maccabi fans have done previously in Amsterdam and Madrid?

[refitman]

The US government appeared on Bluesky yesterday. It's going as well as you would expect



If you want to get in on the fun, there's a handy moderation list, where you can block them all at the same time:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qruaxn ... gbju7lio2e

[Frog222]

" AMERICAN WORKERS FIRST "
From the US Department of Labor @Bluesky

reminded me of the Orange One firing the Statistics chief whose department's statistics didn't suit him, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics not publishing their recent unemployment figures """ because of the lockdown""" tho they could do so . Now there's a whole realm of others resigning before he can fire them, his nominations strangely being withdrawn, and federal judges who he appointed attacking his ICE thugs and much more .

Good to see Pushback, examples from an on-form Rachel --

[refitman]

Odd things on Sky News today. First this:


A pertinent point is this:


Followed by the fact that this 'supporters club' doesn't actually seem to exist. In fact Andrew Fox actually seems to be a talking head for the extremely right-wing Henry Jackson Society - https://bsky.app/profile/jwsal.bsky.soc ... hsjiavcc2w

[refitman]

Looks like a good turnout in New York

[refitman]

[Frog222]

Finished with the cold and dry, now for less cold and Bloody Rain , and I've done a bit more than half of my plan to get ready for it ...

My neighbour sowed the barley for his pigs yesterday and this evening was preparing the field by the house for whatever's next . 9PM and the silage harvesters have just stopped roaring , the only sound now is tractors, probably going home .

I spoke too soon it's all started up again further away ! Well, there's nothing worse than soggy fields for that job . The record is one tractor attempting to tow a stuck one with a third joining the party to rescue the first two .

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One of the favourite antisemitic memes is that 'they' somehow have extraordinary powers over many governments .

Nothing like that 'ere, thank the gods --

[refitman]

This is glorious

[Frog222]

The maize harvesting went on till after 11 !

The last LOL of the day, ---



( But are you sure you haven't thought about it ? )

[refitman]

Those violent, terrorist libs/left

[Sky'sGoneOut]

I see the Guardian are covering themselves in glory again. Two questions for Barney - was he against SA's sports ban during apartheid and has he seen what Maccabi fans have done previously in Amsterdam and Madrid?

Yeah I made the mistake of reading that garbage. Not a single mention of grown Israeli men turning up in Amsterdam and chasing teenage girls down the street wielding scaffolding poles or chanting celebrations of mass murder. Any other group of supporters would be banned from grounds for a lot less, they have been many times, yet for some reason these repulsive racist thugs are such an exception our pitiful wretch of a Prime Minister has to intervene on their behalf. Which is odd because when it comes to things they don't want to get involved in this cowardly shambles masquerading as a Labour party are all for proper process and make a great pearl clutching show of it. Yet on this occasion apparently that can all go out the window because...why? I mean it's baffling. Anyone who cares to look can see what the Maccabi Haifa fans have been up to on their travels. And the tragic thing is for anyone who knows Israeli football these are supposed to be the most liberal fans in the country. They used to pride themselves on having Arab players and being opposed the far right nutters of Beitar Jerusalem or Maccabi Tel Aviv. Yet here they are now, horrifically radicalised chanting 'death to Arabs' on European streets while attacking the locals. Who exactly does Starmer think he's impressing by pressuring the police and effectively encouraging this?

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Also I was astonished I tell you to hear that Rachel Reeves is going to go with the Conservative flow and take disabled people's cars off them.

Because that's what's bringing this country down, those spongeing disabled layabouts getting 'free' cars that they actually have to pay for.

I wonder, has Rachel ever tried travelling by bus or train in a wheelchair? Or even helped someone try to do so? Has she fuck.

I have as a helper, many times, and I'm going to be be fair here, most of the time it's fine but when it's not it's rage inducing. Imagine if you will a bus driver pulling up a good 12 inch/30cm school ruler distance from the curb and expecting you to propel a human in a wheelchair over the gap like an unwilling Evel Knievel then giving you both abuse when you refuse to perform the stunt. Or how about going through the whole palaver of organising a ramp to get your Mum onto a train only to find when turning up it's not available due to 'staff shortages' then spending the next hour worrying your quietly steaming Dad was about to murder someone before the promised ramp arrived with the next train. Actually not even the ramp, just someone authorised to use it.

Would Rachel put up with that? I suspect not. So why should anyone else?

[Sky'sGoneOut]

I mean is it me? Last time I looked I thought I was a centre left liberal but now it seems I'm an anarcho-communist with terrorist sympathies.

If there's one thing Starmer's Labour have done right it's making me sound cooler.

[refitman]

Starmer's all about the rules, isn't he? I'm sure he'll have strong words to say about this.